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Black Opium - Ecstasy of the Forbidden (Paperback)
Claude Farrere; Preface by Pierre Louys; Introduction by Michael Horowitz; Translated by Samuel Putnam; Illustrated by Alexander King
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Interest in heroin is surging back after years of dormancy. Why?
Supply and demand! Drug cartels have increased the supply of
heroin, so that it is cheaper and purer than ever before. Secondly,
the Federal government's recent crack down on popular prescription
opiates like OxcyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin so they are
increasingly hard and costly to obtain on the black market. A
recent study reveals that people who had recently abused
prescription opiates are 19 times more likely to try heroin. Fueled
by a boom in supply and a decline in cost, heroin use is up around
the nation and spreading to segments of the population once
considered unlikely users. "Cool people are doing it!" Remember the
old slogan: "Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll"? Heroin has a sexy
side--very sexy. Black Opium: Ecstasy of the Forbidden brings
heroin's sexy visions to life. The world of black opium is a
forbidden world where human bodies find themselves possessed and
driven by desires which consume them in the flames of hot-blooded
ecstasy, Black Opium describes every aspect of an opium smoker's
life in lurid detail. Often compared to James Joyces' Dubliners,
Farrere's Black Opium consists of seventeen compelling tales
delineating six periods in the history and use of opium. This
edition of Black Opium is a reissue of And/Or Press' 1974 Fitz Hugh
Ludlow edition, which features salacious illustrations by Alexander
King, and the addition of a foreword by Dr. Moraes.
Gastrointestinal function represents an important, and hitherto inappropriately neglected, aspect of diabetes management. Disordered gastrointestinal motor and sensory function occurs frequently in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes and may be associated with gastrointestinal symptoms that adversely affect quality of life. During the last two decades there has been a rapid expansion in knowledge in this area. It is now recognised that upper gastrointestinal motility is pivotal to the regulation of postprandial blood glucose concentrations in both health and patients with diabetes. This book is the first of its kind and was stimulated by the need to consolidate these recent advances, which dictate that a knowledge of gastroenterology as it relates to diabetes is now required of the clinician/diabetologist. - Features an organ-specific overview of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of disordered gastrointestinal (including hepatobiliary and pancreatic) function in diabetes mellitus
- Contains guidelines for the clinician, diabetologist and gastroenterologist for both diagnosis and management.
- Includes a comprehensive description of the relation between gastrointestinal function, gastrointestinal hormones, autonomic nerve function and glycaemic control in animal models.
- Covers the development of new treatment options, particularly those targeted at the reduction of postprandial hyperglycaemia, to optimise glycaemic control.
Target audience: gastroenterologists, diabetologists, specialist nurses and clinical researchers.
PSYCHEDELICS / LITERATURE "Moksha is more than a book about
psychedelics--although it may well be the most intelligent,
well-rounded one of its kind. It is also another chance to spend
hours in Huxley's fascinating company as he talks about art,
literature, religion, psychology, and ecology." --Los Angeles Times
"A remarkably stimulating, worthwhile volume." --Publisher's Weekly
"The final chapter, climaxing in Laura Huxley's description of her
husband's death, is one of the most transfixing pieces of reportage
I've ever read." --Soho Weekly News In May 1953, while in the
company of his wife and a physician friend, Aldous Huxley took
four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent
experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to
produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the
human mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his
anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through
explosive population increase, headlong technological advance, and
militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means
at our disposal to "remind adults that the real world is very
different from the misshapen universe they have created for
themselves by means of their culture-conditioned prejudices." Much
of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be
seen as his attempt to reveal the power of these substances to
awaken a sense of the sacred in people living in a technological
society hostile to mystical revelations. Moksha, a Sanskrit word
meaning "liberation," is a collection of the prophetic and
visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It includes selections from
his acclaimed novels Brave New World andIsland, both of which
envision societies centered around the use of psychedelics as
stabilizing forces, as well as pieces from The Doors of Perception
and Heaven and Hell, his famous works on consciousness-expansion.
Also included are magazine articles, interviews, letters, and
scientific papers that vividly demonstrate the evolution of his
ideas and offer an engrossing record of the journey. MICHAEL
HOROWITZ and CYNTHIA PALMER are the directors of the Fitz Hugh
Ludlow Memorial Library in San Francisco, the only library in the
world devoted exclusively to the literature of mind-altering drugs.
Michael Horowitz was Timothy Leary's archivist and is coauthor of
The High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs. Palmer and
Horowitz live in northern California.
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